it ever be so in the future history of this Mission! and may God continue to bless all its members with entire devotion to their great and good work, until there shall be raised within the nation, and nursed at its own breasts, a native ministry adequate to the care of its churches, and able of itself to perpetuate the noble institutions planted here.

Angels unseen, as ministering spirits went,
When forth the chosen witnesses were sent,

With power from high to preach, where'er they trod,
The glorious Gospel of the blessed GOD.

GOOD ANGELS still conduct, from age to age,
Salvation's heirs, on heavenly pilgrimage:

Bright angels through mid-heaven shall hold their flight,
Till all that sit in darkness see the light;
Still the good tidings of great joy proclaim,
Till every tongue confess a Savior's name.
Hearts, harps, and voices, in one choir shall raise
The new, the old, th' eternal song of praise.
May ye who read, with him who wrote this strain,
Join in that song, and worship in that train!

MONTGOMERY.

FELICITIES OF A NATIVE

SCHOONER. 139

CHAPTER VII.

VOYAGE TO HAWAII, AND A HOME WITH THE KUMU.

The wild waves are my nightly pillows,
Beneath me roll the ocean's billows;
And as I rest on my couch of brine,

I watch the eternal planets shine.
Ever I ride

On a harmless tide;

Fearing naught-enjoying all things;
Undisturb'd by great or small things.

C. MACKAY.

Ships are but boards, sailors are but men: there be land-rats, and water-rats; water-thieves, and land-thieves; and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. The craft is, notwithstanding, sufficient. Shylock: Merchant of Venice.

I TOOK my departure rather more than a week ago from Honolulu, in a little schooner of thirty or forty tons burden, commanded by a Chinaman. There were ten of the missionaries returning from general meeting, and upward of eighty natives, stowed so close that one could not stretch himself without making a transverse section of several others. And as to navigating from stem to stern, it was impossible, without making stepping-stones of a dozen or more Kanakabodies, unless you chose to go round on the outside of the craft, as the sailors did, holding on by toes and fingers to keep you from falling into the mouths of hungry sharks, that glided noiselessly about in the

blue waters a foot or two below, ready to act on the law of freebooters every where,

That he may keep who has the power,

And he may catch who can.

There was a good proportion of native women with infants at the breast; and when we had all got our postures on the deck for the night, or were taking food together after sea-sickness by day, or were instructing the monsters of the deep (in the way that seasick folks are wont to do) into the gastronomic changes and juices of animal chemistry, our deck was a rare field for the pencil of some Cruikshank designer.

We arrived the third evening at the roadstead of Lahaina. The signal of a white flag at the foremast head informed those ashore of the approach of missionaries, and brought off the station double canoe, in which we were all safely carried ashore through the surf, and hospitably disposed of for the night by Rev. Mr. Baldwin. We called the next day upon the king, Kamehameha III., and were introduced to him in a warm bath, which he was taking for the benefit of a rheumatic or gouty knee. He afterward appeared in the reception-room in a loose dress, and we could not help being pleased at the simplicity of his manners, and at the same time gentlemanly bearing, while one could hardly help laughing at the Oriental novelty of our first introduction to his Hawaiian Majesty.

John Young, the governor of Maui, a half-breed, was also present, and for grace and elegance of demeanor, and personal presence, he would have done honor to the court of Queen Victoria. There were